[ltp] Quick Question

[Adam Southerland]

ok... you gave me the right command... I also had to specify type...
eg.   fdformat /dev/fd0u1440

otherwise I got some error  file system unknown? or disk unknown type... 
somthing like that...

Thanks!!!!


----Original Message Follows----
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Subject: Re: [ltp] Quick Question
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:49:50 -0400

On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 05:02:42PM -0300, Adam Southerland wrote:
 > Why is it that if I run 'mke2fs /dev/fd0' my system hangs for a few 
minutes
 > then tells me:
 > /dev/fd0: Input/output error

Mke2fs only puts an ext2 filesystem on the floppy disk.  It doesn't do
a low-level format of the floppy disk.  In order to do this, use the
fdformat program.

					- Ted

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